REALTY:
Workshop

5 October 17, 2 pm

Studio, Front building, 1st floor

Free admission, limited capacity

Please RSVP until October 3, 2017, at sh@kw-berlin.de

Session hosted by the Sommerakademie Paul Klee fellowship program with artists Johanna Bruckner, Crystal Z Campbell, Luiza Crosman, Alexandros Kyriakatos, Alexis Mitchell, Bahar Noorizadeh, Heather M. O’Brien & Jonathan Takahashi

Over the period of Summer 2017 to Spring 2019, the Sommerakademie Paul Klee Bern grants fellowships to eight artists committed to issues spelled out in the REALTY program. Having collectively pinned down some fundamental working premises, the Fellows now convene in Berlin to further elaborate the key premises, and share some core concerns with a small public. In conversation with Tirdad Zolghadr, the aim is to strategically reflect on the embeddedness of one’s practice within political, labor, and housing questions. With the point of departure being not only that contemporary art is an unregulated field par excellence. But that this precarious state of affairs produces the very cosmopolitan creative class that bolsters gentrification.

Part of project: REALTY

The project REALTY focused on the role of contemporary art in recent histories of gentrification. These days, it seems one artist, one venue, one model after another is being unmasked as being part of the problem. But we will not be discussing art’s shortcomings yet again. Instead, REALTY asked how art’s international playing field can be put to better use. It insisted on moving beyond critique, and towards an attempt at productive models, however vague or naive. The KW leg of REALTY kicked off in October 2017, with a series of public lectures, workshops, and screenings. The project was conceived by Tirdad Zolghadr, KW’s Associate Curator, and commissioned by KW and Sommerakademie Paul Klee Bern.

Overview 

2017–2022